Crazy Hong Kong cinema

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The Big Heat - Johnnie To directed this one, it's from 1988, starring Waise Lee as a police officer with some on-the-job psychological issues. This is fairly notorious for being incredibly violent (though not quite violent enough to earn a Category 3 rating). A whole lot of fun, and with a wonderfully inappropriate "wacky" coda considering the events of the film up to that point.

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God of Cookery - Absolute brilliance. Stephen Chiao as the titular character, a master TV chef who falls from grace and has to work his way back up to the top, defeating an evil ex-protege, assisted by a group of psychotic Shaolin monks and a hideous Karen Mok.

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Too Many Ways To Be Number One - Lau Ching Wan, a terrific actor with a Benicio del Toro-esque presence, plays a low-level gangster trying to move up through the ranks. This is a film along the lines of Run Lola Run in some ways, as it presents two different ways LCW can work his way up the ladder. Seriously astonishing, like Wong Kar-Wai meets Johnnie To (To produced this one, actually). Nice supporting work from Francis Ng as LCW's cowardly, all-talk buddy.

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Beast Cops - You'd think this was some sort of manic action film from the DVD box, but this is actually a light-hearted cop buddy movie first, domestic comedy second, and dark triad thriller third. Totally weird in tone and massively entertaining. Anthony Wong gives a fantastic performance that won best actor for him that year in the Hong Kong film awards.